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Resizing picture and text
It’s important to understand that when a page is stretched (e.g. if you drag the right edge
of the page to be wider), text items and images are resized, but the program does not
distort the text or images. There’s nothing worse than a photo that has the wrong aspect
ratio, or stretched text.

So in the case of text objects, when the container of the text is resized, the text just re-
flows within the new container size. So, for example, changing a page from A4 portrait to
A4 Landscape the body text is not stretched, it remains the same point size, but the text
frame is stretched.

In the example above the page is made wider (and less tall). The text remains the same point
size, but the text frame, and other items on the page have been resized in proportion.
This is the out-of-the-box behavior when everything is set to AUTOMATIC. Using the
manual controls you can optimize the behavior, so that for example the width or height of
items can be fixed. In the above example you can see the height of the header and footer
has become reduced as the page height has reduced. This might not be what you want,
and this is where the individual HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL controls come into play - as
described.

Resizing text
If the page is made taller AND wider, then the text will be resized. The example below
shows a small page on the left, and a much larger Facebook post size version, with